Games Like Travian on Mobile

Travian was the game that taught a generation what real online strategy felt like — founding a village, juggling four resources, raising distinct troop types, and living or dying by your alliance’s coordination. If you’re looking for that exact feeling on a phone, here are the games that come closest, ranked by how well they capture it.

Travian still has official mobile apps, but two things push longtime players to look for alternatives: many servers run thin, and the experience hasn’t modernized much for touch. The good news is the formula it pioneered lives on. These are the closest matches.

Quick comparison

1. Prestige: Kingdom War — the closest spiritual successor

If you specifically miss Haypi Kingdom — the mobile game that brought the Travian formula to phones — Prestige is a free-to-play rebuild of exactly that. It hits the Travian beats more directly than anything else on mobile right now:

• ▸A persistent 600×600 world you share with everyone on the server — no instanced bubbles.
• ▸Resource economy (Wood, Stone, Iron, Crop) where crop literally feeds your army — run out and troops starve.
• ▸Four troop types with real roles: Infantry clear traps, Cavalry haul loot and hit fast, Archers provide ranged fire, Catapults break sieges.
• ▸Multi-city expansion — you grow from one city into an empire and manage each.
• ▸Alliance warfare built around taking and holding forts and oases, not just a group chat.

It’s free to download with an optional VIP and premium currency, but the free game is fully playable. For ex-Travian and ex-Haypi players, it’s the shortest path back to the feeling.

2. Tribal Wars — pure conquest

Tribal Wars is the other great browser-era survivor, and it’s on mobile. It’s more single-mindedly about conquest than Travian — fewer economic systems, more village- sniping and timed attacks. If what you loved about Travian was the cold tactical warfare and you can live without some of the economic depth, it’s a great fit.

Trade-offs

• ▸Spartan presentation — function over polish.
• ▸Steeper social learning curve; the best play happens inside coordinated tribes.

3. Rise of Kingdoms — bigger, looser, busier

Not a pure Travian clone, but it scratches a similar itch at a much larger scale: a seamless shared map, alliance wars, and territory. It’s glossier and more active than anything else here, at the cost of more spending pressure and less of Travian’s tight economic tension. If you want the persistent-world social warfare but care less about the resource micromanagement, it’s worth a look.

4. Grepolis — Travian with a toga

From the same studio lineage, Grepolis takes the Travian skeleton and reskins it in ancient Greece, adding gods and naval units. The loop will feel instantly familiar. Like the other classics, the main question is whether you can land on an active server.

The bottom line

If you want the Travian feeling rebuilt for mobile with the depth intact and a server that’s actually filling up, start with Prestige: Kingdom War. If you want pure conquest, Tribal Wars. If you want scale and don’t mind spending pressure, Rise of Kingdoms.

Not sure where to start across the whole genre? Our best mobile strategy games guide ranks all of these head-to-head.